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Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress.
She was born Catherine Jones and hails from Mumbles, Wales. Her name stems from two different grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine, while the other is "Zeta," named after a ship that Catherine's great-grandfather sailed on. She was born to a Welsh father and a mother of Irish Catholic extraction, besides English she speaks Welsh fluently. She has 2 brothers. As a child she had a tracheotomy leaving a scar.
Her stage career began in childhood. She sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part of a catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was ten years of age, and by 1987 she was appearing in Forty-Second Street in the West End. Once the show closed, Catherine travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a. Sheherazade), her feature film debut.
Her exotic good looks, teamed with her singing and dancing ability, ensured her a bright future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of MayThe Darling Buds of May was a British television series which was first broadcast between 1991 and 1993 on ITV. It was a comedy set in an idylic rural 1950s Kent, among a large, boisterous family. The three series were based on the novels by H. The key ch ( 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac), that she made her name.
She is married to the actor Michael DouglasMichael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Is an American actor and producer. He is the son of actor Kirk Douglas. Douglas starred in the long-running TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976. Though, with whom she has 2 children. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000. (Her American admirers like to think that he is named after Bob Dylan - a favourite of Michael - while her British admirers like to think that Dylan ThomasDylan Marlais Thomas ( October 27 1914, Swansea November 9 1953, New York City) was a Welsh poet and writer. He is widely considered to be among the greatest poets of the 20th century. Biography Thomas was born in Swansea, in south Wales: his father David, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration). Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003.
Catherine has not forgotten her roots and has built a seaside dream home in her hometown of Swansea, determined that her children grow up aware of their Welsh heritage.
Apart from her acting career, Catherine is also an advertising spokesperson for the mobile phoneCellular links here. For the 2004 movie, Cellular see Cellular (movie). A mobile phone is a mobile device which acts as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area. Mobile phones allow connections to be made to the telephone network, nor company T-MobileT-Mobile is a multinational mobile phone operator. It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and belongs to the Freemove alliance. T-Mobile operates GSM networks in Western Europe and the United States. It has financial stakes in mobile operators in Eastern. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth ArdenElizabeth Arden ( December 31, 1878 October 18, 1966), aka Florence Nightingale Graham was a Canadian-born U. beautician, and cosmetics entrepreneur. She was born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada and after her early schooling she moved to New York in 1908 o. She has also starred on the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher.
She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressThe Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners for the movie Chicago in 2003.